9/16/08

A Monday Morning Offerin...A TUESDAY Morning Offering!Morning Offering Archive IconThis weekend was very busy in the parish and Sunday was one one of my busiest days ever! I didn't get my homily posted until late in the evening - and only today, when one reader inquired, did I realize I'd not posted a Monday Morning Offering. (H/T to my faithful reader!) Well, there's NOTHING in our lives that can't be the subject of prayer, so here goes...

Good morning, good God!

I know you're eternal and timeless,without a beginning and without an end,and so I'm trusting you don't keep trackof the days of the weekor live by a calendaras I do...

I just didn't get to it yesterdayand I'm trusting that you'll give me a listen,even 24 hours late...

Truth is, Lord, I know you'll accept my prayer,even a day late,because no prayer of mine goes unheardby you who liveand love mein the present moment,now and always and forever...

You do not dwell on the mistakesof all my yesterdays,not a one of them...

You do not hold me to tomorrowsI've not yet met,not even the day after today...

But you are with me, ever, in the present:indeed, this is the day you have made,the one on which you wait for me,the day you come to meet me...

Heal me of living in my past, Lord,and open me to your mercyflowing, rushing in a riverfrom your heart to mine...

Save me from my anxiety,deliver me from fear of daysyet to dawn and pass,days whose blessingsI've not yet met...

Hold me in the present moment,keep me in today:remind me all day longthat this is the day you have made for me,the day you walk with me:from moment to minute, from hour to hour,from the rising of the sun to its setting,through the night of moon and stars...

No prayer of mine comes too early, Lord,no prayer of mine arrives too late,for in every moment of the day and nightyour heart listens for mineto beat, to speak,to plead, to pray, to praiseand glorify your holy name...

I offer you this day, Lord,this Tuesday,for this is the day you have madeand this the prayeryour Spirit has stirred in my heart...

Thank you for this beautiful Tuesday morning prayer. Very inspirational. I too had wondered about the Monday morning prayer, so you have several of us who look forward to starting our weeks this way! Hope you have had a chance to catch your breath after your busiest ever Sunday. And for your sake I hope this isn't portents of things to come. You had said you were having trouble giving up summer and vacation. Sounds as if Sunday decided to eliminate any foot dragging you might have still had!

Thanks to all for your concern but as busy as Sunday was, it was, as in your own lives, just one of those times when "everything happens at once." It wasn't a crisis, just a confluence of many ministerial moments, each of them graced, falling on one day.

The final grace of Sunday was the inspiration for the Monday Morning Offering on Tuesday! Praise God!

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